Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar winning American actor and producer. He is the boy of actor Kirk Douglas.

Douglas starred in the long-heading TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Though a capable actor, his career was somewhat stagnant fallowing the series & he sole appeared inside occasional film which were commonly to a lesser degree popular (for instance, 1979's Running). Totally this changed by having 1984's romantic escapade comedy Romancing the Stone. His role in this hit picture re-introduced him as a capable & likeable leading human.

Michael Douglas received an Academy Award as producer for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and for the leading role in Wall Street in 1988. He is one of a virtually all sought when actors within Hollywood and commands a hefty total for his roles.

Douglas starred within Fatal Attraction'' with Glenn Close and the film became the globe-wide hit. Two Douglas & Close attended a equivalent preparatory school, Choate Rosemary Hall.

Douglas married Diandra Luker on 20 March 1977. It experienced of these boy, Cameron. A marriage failed within 2000 fallowing 23 years after Diandrthe complained of his womanising, absenteeism & non existence a proper father to Cameron. That equivalent season, Douglas married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is exactly Xxv years immature than he is. He's been married to Jones since November 18 2000. It keep close at hand deuce tykes, Dylan (b. 2000) & Carys (b. 2003)

Around 1980 he was involved inside the good skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years.

Around September of 1992 he underwent treatment for alcoholism abuse at Sierra Tucson Center.

His father is Jewish and his upper-class mother is of Scottish and English descent.

Inside 1998 he received a Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to globe cinema at a Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Trivia

He & married woman Catherine Zeta-Jones have the equivalent birthday. Still, Douglas is Twenty-five years her senior.

Within 1975, he quit The Streets of San Francisco to produce ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A pic earned him an Academy Award.

Selected acting filmography
The In-Laws (2003) It Runs in the Family (2003) Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (TV Series) (2002) Don't Say a Word (2001) One Night at McCool's (2001) Traffic (2000) Wonder Boys (2000) A Perfect Murder (1998) The Game (1997) The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) The American President (1995) Disclosure (1994) Falling Down (1993) Oliver Stone (1992) Basic Instinct (1992) The War of the Roses (1989) Wall Street (1987) Fatal Attraction (1987) The Jewel of the Nile (1985) A Chorus Line (1985) Romancing the Stone (1984) The Star Chamber (1983) The China Syndrome (1979) Coma'' (1978)